Tiananmen massacre museum opens in New York despite fear of Beijing backlash

Communist party has campaigned for decades to eradicate remembrance events for the 4 June clashes in Beijing

When Zhou Fengsuo was looking for a space in New York to display his art collection, he couldn't believe his luck when he stumbled across 894 6th Avenue in the heart of midtown Manhattan. The numbers of the address - 8946 - were the same as the date he wanted to commemorate: 4 June 1989. It was unbelievable", the former student leader marvelled.

That Zhou's collection, which opened to the public on Friday as part of the June 4th Memorial Museum, ended up in such an uncanny location is the result of a concerted, decades-long campaign by the Chinese Communist party (CCP) to eradicate any remembrance of the 1989 massacre around Tiananmen Square anywhere in the world.